About Us
United Way of the Bay Area
For families living in poverty their lives boil down to choices: Getting new glasses or buying groceries. Purchasing school supplies or putting gas in the car. Paying the doctor or paying for daycare.
These are our neighbors. Our co-workers. Our friends. We believe it’s unacceptable that our neighbors are living in poverty.
Our Approach
We know that tackling the symptoms of poverty one by one will never be enough. We know one program or expert can never do the job alone. Only by working together can we attack the problem at its source.
The key word here is together. And together is what United Way of the Bay Area is all about.
For 80 years we’ve worked with hundreds of poverty-fighting non-profits, government and social service agencies in the Bay Area. Last year alone United Way invested more than $14.8 million in the Bay Area nonprofit programs that are building pathways out of poverty. We’ve seen what works, what doesn’t work and what works exceptionally well. We believe each of the Bay Area’s poverty-fighting experts holds a piece of the puzzle.
To get the job done, we’re combining forces with non-profits, grassroots activists, individual donors, corporations, labor—everyone who believes, as we do, that we must take action to end poverty in the Bay Area.
